St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-03-26
NEWS IN BRIEF.
CempilsA from Various Sources.


Compiled from Various Sources.
THE Salvation Army is preparing to at
ack the strongholds of sin among the
Canadian Indians.
RHODE ISLAND is all broken up over a
serious outbreak of hog-cholera and
pleuro-pneumonia
RUSSIAN official circles now admit the
correctness of the reports about the at
tempt to assassinate the Gar.
UNITED STATES SENATOR SHERMAN and
other distinguished American excursion
lists arrived at Havana on the 14th.
SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN is seriously, but
not dangerously i'll at Monte Carlo, from
the effects of earthquake shock prostra-
ton.
CORRECTED and revised lists of the casu-
alties in the wreck on the Boston Il Prov
idence railroad give twenty-four killed
and ia injured.
MAvRoYRNI BEY, the newly accredited
Minister Of Turkey to the United States,
was formally presented to the President,
on the 18th. by Secretary Bayard.
JOHN FUNK, aged thirty-five, of Column
bia, Pa, was struck by train on the Penn
sylvania road, half a mile above that town
early on the morning of the 18th, and was
decapitated.
THE New York Times says that stock
brokers were betting freely that when the
smoke clears away the new owner of the
Baltimore & Ohio would be found to be
Jay Gould.
d. LYNCH PRINGLE, of South Carolina,
has been transferred from the position of
Consul General and secretary of the lega-
ton at Guatemala to that of Consul-Gen-
eral at Constantinople
THE retail butchers of New York and
Brooklyn are moving to resist the en-
croachments of the 'sranch to the table"
scheme Of Marquis de Mores and other
Western dressed beef firms.
MRS. MARY P. PELTO-e sister of the late
Samuel J. sTilden, diedS New York on the
18th. Reports indicate that she and her
sisters have been very shabbily treated
by the executors of the dead statesman.
AT the eighteenth annual reunion of the
Society Of the army Of the Cumberland,
to be held at Washington, May H. a statue
of General James A. Garfield will be un-
yelled.
IT is said that Commander Chadwick,
naval attache of the American legation
In, n n
bears with him several designs by foreign
ship-builders for the new 6, 00o-ton vessels
to be added to our navy
The circulation of standard silver dol
lars is now S57, PA, $40 out of a total coin
age Of 1856, Al, 647. The silver certificates
in circulation amount to S123, 900, 1893, de-
Quoting which leaves So, 966, 745 net stand
ard dollars in the treasury.
Ex-SPgAKER CARLISLE was banqueted
by the Bay State Club in Boston on the
18th. Admiring Massachusetts Demo
Gratis claim that the ex-Speaker bears
striking resem blance to the next Demo-
cratic candidate for Vice-President.
PRINCE ALBERT VICTOR, son of the
Prince Of W ales, has been sent 10 Gibral-
tar on duty with the Sixtieth Rifles, in
order to restrain his too apparent ten
dency to fast living in England. The heir
presumptive must be taught moderation.
The issue of standard silver dollars
from the minis during the week ended
March IL was s447,2 The issue during
the corresponding period of last year was
$411 ,780. The shipments Of fractional sill
yer coin since March l amount to $133 1888.
THE Pennsylvania House congressional
apportionment committee has agreed to
give Philadelphia six districts, gain of
one. A Philadelphia reapportionment was
also agreed upon, making all of the six
districts Republican, thus shutting Mr..
Randall out.
The appearance of several well-de-
veloped cases Of smallpox in GAINESVILLE,
Wis, is causing general alarm Fears
are entertained of it's spreading, and
special meeting of the Common Council
was called to make arrangements for
city hospital.
THE total values of the exports of domes-
tic breadstuffs during the month of Feb
ruary, 1887, amounted to S11, 1891, 446 as
against $40, 105, 157 for the same time in
1886, and for the eight months ended Feb
ruary %, 1887, So. $40 449, against $73, 49,
285 for a CORES onding period in 1885.
THE condition of Secretary Manning,
who is i'll at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New
York, was somewhat improved on the
14th, and his condition is not considered
at all dangerous, although it was said he
would be compelled to postpone his de-
parture for Europe until the 10Th, when
he will sail on the Umbria.
THE First Comptroller Of the Treasury
has decided that no portion of the interest
OF the fund Of $350,0o0 appropriated by
Congress for the education Of the blind
can be used in the purchase of embossed
books and tangible apparatus for the ed
ucation of the blind, made elsewhere than
at the American Institute for the Blind in
Louisville, KY.